Guide to installing OSX on a Hackintosh

Installing the Mac OS

Alright there are a few steps to doing this. You'll want to pay attention and follow each step exactly in order. Don't skip around. You should probably read through this guide before you start working.

Bios

The first thing your going to want to do is configure the bios.

1. Change the boot device order - (1) flash drive booting from (2) hard drive installing Mac OS on (3) Doesn't really matter now.

2. Make sure SATA is AHCI

3. Disable QuickBoot

Creating a bootable USB drive

You will need,

A USB drive at least 8gbs

A copy of Mac Mountain Lion from the app store 

An account to the tonymacx86 forum

Unibeast from tonymacx86

Access to a working mac computer

Okay now that you have all of that stuff we can get to work on creating your bootable USB drive. 

1.  Plug your thumb drive (USB drive) into the mac

2. go to Applications<Utilities<disk utilities

3. click on thumb drive

4. Partitioning the thumb drive (1) Click current and change to "1 partition"(2) Name the thumb drive "USB" without the quotes (3) select format as "Mac OS X extended Journaled" (4) Select "Master Boot" type (5) Click "apply" (6) Click partition 

5. Make sure that Mountain Lion installer is in your applications folder

6. Running UniBeast (1) Open UniBeast (2) click "continue" "continue" "continue" "agree" (3) Now select Laptop support or legacy usb support. Laptop support is for laptops and legacy usb support is for 1156 chipsets. If your not sure whether or not you'll need the legacy usb support click on it. It will not break anything if you don't need it. (4) Click "continue" (5) enter Password (6) wait...... (about 30 min, but up to an hour)

7. You now have a Bootable USB drive

Installing OSX

Alright now go to your hackintosh. If you have integrated graphics of any type then do yourself a favor and remove your graphics card. Now plug in your bootable usb drive.

1. Turn on your computer

2. go to your boot selection page (normally you can get there by f11 f12 or esc)

3. Select your thumb drive

4. Choose language and agree

5. Once your through the basic setup you'll need to partition your hard drive. If the partitioner doesn't pop up (1) disk utilities on the top bar (2) Partition Tab

(NOTE)  The following is how to partition for an Ubuntu/ MAC OSX dual boot with separate

 root and home folders for each. Root will be on an ssd and home on a 1tb hard drive. 

6. Select 2 partitions for your ssd

7. Set the first partition as your Ubuntu partition give it the proper amount of space

8. Move to the bottom partition Give it the proper amount of space. 

9. Set the bottom partition to Mac OS extended Journaled 

10. Set the partition scheme to GUID for the bottom partition

11. Click "apply" then partition

12. Now select that partition as the one for the installer.

13. Run installer like normal.

14. Congratulations Mac OSX is now installed

Running MultiBeast

Alright what you select while running MultiBeast varies computer to computer depending on your parts. Here is what everyone should know. 

1. You can find your motherboard setting by a google search normally.

2. You can run MultiBeast multiple times. Just make sure you restart your computer between each one.

3. You can't select everything. It will not work.

Finishing Up

Once you've finished running MultiBeast eject the usb drive and restart. 

Tips and Tricks

If you can't get into the OS don't worry. Just reinsert the usb drive and get in through there. select it in the boot menu. Continue trying to tweak MultiBeast until it works. Good luck!

Conclusion

If you have any questions leave a comment. If I missed something leave a comment and I'll update the guide. I made a lot a mistakes installing OSX on my hackintosh. Hopefully this helps you out.

Don't be a copycat. Don't make the same mistakes I do!!